The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-14

the barrels and stocks, gave ample evil
dence of their not having been hurried.
From these clues followed system
attic shadowing, with the result of un-
earthing the whole gang.
WILL EMPLOY COUNSEL.
PITTSBURG. April 1S.-John SimmS,
chief of the Brotherhood of Brakemen
of the Pan Handle railroad, called upon
Deputy Mayor Grip, before whom
warrants had been sworn out, this
morning and stated that he had been
employed on the Pan Handle road for
the past four months and during that
time he had never seen anything
The Brotherhood, he said, would
employ counsel to defend the prison
ers and if possible establish their in
nocence. If proofs were shown OF
guilt. however, the Brotherhood would
insist on conviction. 1t was the lnten-
ton also to proceed against the com
pany for damages if the charges against
any of the men under arrest were not
sustained.
AFTER ANOTHER BATCH.
Detective CoulbOn of the city police
left this morning to arrest several men
who had been in the employ of the
company but had left before the ex-
posture. These men, it is claimed, are
known to have been among the most
Handle. They are now in the employ
of the Pennsylvania, Fort Wayne,
Lake Erie and Baltimore s. Ohio rail-
roads. 1t is asserted that these men
went to other lines to organize crews
of those roads with view of system
attic robbery The probabili,
Cleveland s. Pittsburg is based on
the fact of those roads paralleling each
other for a considerable distance and
of the naturally close relations which
would exist among the men engaged on
them.
Mc6rath Burned Out.
CHICAGO, April 13.-J. J. McGrath's
wall paper house, located in five story
building on Wabash avenue, was total
ly destroyed by fire early this morning.
The stock is an entire loss and the
building irreparably injured, the floors
having fallen through. The fire was
attended by two fatalities. a pipeman,
Michael Burns, was standing in a
fourth story window when a sheet of
tame came out ind enveloped him
and he fell into the blazing mass inside.
Lieut.. John Heberlie was climbing a
ladder to the second story when 1t
slipped and he fell to the sidewalk,
crushing its skull. Captain Fred Reese
had leg broken by a falling stone.
The fire was discovered at $50 O'Clock
by a night Waterman. When the
firemen arrived the fire was in the
centre of the building, but even before
| the hose could be brought to bear, the
flames had jumped from story to story
above and below and seized
speedily upon the very in
| fiammable stuff with which
the floors were loaded. A second and
| third alarm was turned in and twenty
engines were soon working upon the
building. The firemen say they never
saw so rapid and complete destruction
of large establishment. The fire was
out about o'clock and very little if
any damage was done to adjoining
buildings which were occupied by
wholesale jewelry and millinery houses.
The loss is supposed to be $50, 600 to
S175, 900 on stock and $50, 900 on the
building. The insurance is said to be
small. The owner of the stock of wall
paper declared this morning that the
loss would reach half million dollars.
1t was probably the largest stock car
| ried by any one firm in America. The
insurance will fall short OF the loss by
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